PAPERS RELATING TO ANTHROPOLOGY. 829 



Stubbs, Charles H. — In reply to the assertion made in Smithsonian An- 

 nual Report, 1879, page 446, that there are no mounds in Northeast Mary- 

 land, states that there are mounds or stone cairns in Cecil County, from 

 oneof which he obtained twenty pieces of pottery. There are no sculi)t- 

 ured rocks in the Susquehanna Eiver at Conowingo, but many in the 

 river at Bald Friar, 1^ miles above Conowingo. Mr. Stubbs claims to 

 have first brought these rocks to the notice of scientific men. Lancas- 

 ter County was once the home of the Susquehannocks, the Shawanoes, 

 and the Conestogoes, and wherever they lived are yet to be found relics 

 of these tribes, and in all probability of a race far anterior to them. In 

 the southern end of this county is the Eock Spring, excavated by the 

 aborigines. On the Hutton farm is an Indian village site. In the Sus- 

 quehanna, at Peach Bottom, Mount Johnson Island, is a famous locality 

 for gathering stone relics. In Mastic Township are the evidences of 

 another Indian village. In Manor, at what was once Indian Town, are 

 yet to be found large quantities of pottery. Near Christiana and the 

 Gap resided the Shawnees. Here is the quarry at which the steatite 

 pots were made, one of which has not been severed from the rock. Mr. 

 Stubbs cautions archaeologists about committing themselves to names 

 for aboriginal implements whose functions are still unknown. 



Woods, E. H. — States that on the plantation of a friend close to the 

 Eoanoke Eiver, near Avoca, N. C, is an old Indian camping-ground. 

 During some excavations there were found bones, arrowheads, pottery, 

 and a skeleton in a sitting posture. 



